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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1968
Page
1
AP report updates missing and presumed dead to 57 after the interisland schooner Federal Queen sank while ferrying contract workers from Union Island to St Vincent for Christmas. 38 survived as search operations continued.
Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and Frank Borman delivered a Christmas time prayer for peace. He urged action toward universal peace as the crew observed the moon’s terrain and prepared for a TV tribute. Weather outlook: light snow possible, cold with lows 5-10 and highs in the 20s.
Midway Island AP dispatch reports USS Pueblo commander Cmdr Lloyd M Bucher questioning whether the North Koreans who captured the ship were properly authorized He says the captors aimed to embarrass the United States and notes the crew viewed them as fools on a two hour refueling stop en route home Surviving Pueblo sailors return to American soil greeted by Adm John Hyland.
Wives and children gather in San Diego for Christmas Eve reunion with the 62 Pueblo crewmen released from North Korea after 11 months. Navy-paid travel for 43 families totals 23 473 dollars. 167 dependents expected, with more to arrive. Families met crew at Miramar, then news conference and medical debriefings at San Diego Naval Hospital.
AP reports on Christmas Eve as GIs in Vietnam and abroad mark a pause in fighting, Apollo 8 in orbit, Holy Land pilgrims, and a Pueblo crew returning from North Korea. Pope Paul to celebrate Mass in Taranto, while U.S. leaders observe the holiday. a San Antonio man gains U.S. citizenship after wartime injuries.
Fresh snows spread across the West and East while the central plains faced bitter cold. A Pacific storm lashed the northwest with gales and soaking rains, piling heavy snow inland from the Cascades to the northern Rockies. In Lakeview Oregon 16 inches fell, and New York’s western counties faced 50 mph winds and six inches on ice. Arctic air froze the plains and Midwest with zero temperatures as drifts reached 10 to 12 feet in Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Minnesota.
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